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Last Train from Gun Hill
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) is a John Sturges Western starring Kirk Douglas as a marshal and Anthony Quinn as the cattle baron father of his wife's killer, climaxing at the 9 o'clock train.
Man of the West
Man of the West (1958) is a genre classic American Western directed by Anthony Mann, starring Gary Cooper as a reformed outlaw based on The Border Jumpers.
My Darling Clementine
My Darling Clementine is John Ford's 1946 Twentieth Century-Fox western starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp, with Victor Mature as Doc Holliday, adapted from Stuart Lake's book, shot in Monument Valley, and edited down by Zanuck.
Pursued
Pursued (1947) is Raoul Walsh's film noir Western, written by Niven Busch, starring Robert Mitchum as massacre survivor Jeb Rand, with Teresa Wright and Judith Anderson; called Hollywood's first psychological or noir Western.
Ramrod
Ramrod is a 1947 Western directed by Andre de Toth, starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake, the first film of Enterprise Productions, adapted from a Luke Short novel, shot in Zion National Park and often classified as a noir Western.
Rancho Notorious
Rancho Notorious (1952) is Fritz Lang's third and final Western, a Technicolor revenge tale starring Marlene Dietrich as outlaw-ranch owner Altar Keane, with Arthur Kennedy; known for its ballad narration and Chuck-a-Luck hideout.
Red River (1948 film)
Red River (1948) is Howard Hawks's Western starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift in his debut, Joanne Dru, and Walter Brennan, from Borden Chase's Saturday Evening Post serial The Chisholm Trail, about a tyrannical rancher's post-Civil War cattle drive.
Ride Lonesome (1959 film)
Ride Lonesome (1959) is a Budd Boetticher Western starring Randolph Scott as bounty hunter Ben Brigade, written by Burt Kennedy, fifth of the Ranown cycle, first in CinemaScope, James Coburn's debut.
Rio Bravo (film)
Rio Bravo (1959) is Howard Hawks's Western starring John Wayne as Sheriff Chance, made as a rebuttal to High Noon; 141 minutes, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Metascore 93.
Rio Grande (1950 film)
Rio Grande (1950) is John Ford's black-and-white cavalry Western starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, the third film of Ford's cavalry trilogy, made for Republic Pictures as part of a deal to finance The Quiet Man.
River of No Return
River of No Return is a 1954 American Western directed by Otto Preminger, starring Robert Mitchum as a frontier farmer and Marilyn Monroe as a saloon singer.
Run of the Arrow
Run of the Arrow is a 1957 Samuel Fuller Western starring Rod Steiger as a Confederate who joins the Sioux after Appomattox; noted for its foot-focused title ritual and its plot similarity to Dances with Wolves.
San Antonio (1945 film)
San Antonio (1945) is a Warner Bros. Technicolor Western directed by David Butler, starring Errol Flynn as cattleman Clay Hardin and Alexis Smith, with two Oscar nominations and top-twenty 1945 box office.
Sergeant Rutledge
Sergeant Rutledge (1960) is John Ford's courtroom Western, also titled Captain Buffalo, starring Woody Strode as a Ninth Cavalry Buffalo Soldier tried for rape and murder; the first Hollywood Western with a Black hero.
Seven Men from Now
Seven Men from Now (7 Men from Now) is a 1956 Budd Boetticher Western starring Randolph Scott as ex-sheriff Ben Stride hunting his wife's killers, written by Burt Kennedy, first of the Ranown cycle, restored by UCLA in 2000.
Shane (film)
Shane (1953), George Stevens's Paramount Western adapted from Jack Schaefer's novel, stars Alan Ladd as a retired gunfighter defending Wyoming homesteaders; six Oscar nominations, won Color Cinematography, National Film Registry 1993.
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is a 1949 John Ford Western, second of his cavalry trilogy and the only one in Technicolor, starring John Wayne as retiring Captain Nathan Brittles in Monument Valley; it won Winton C. Hoch the color cinematography Oscar.
Silver River
Silver River (1948) is a Raoul Walsh Warner Bros. Western starring Errol Flynn as Mike McComb, a dishonorably discharged Union officer who becomes a Nevada silver magnate; his seventh and last film with Walsh, costing $3.2 million.
Stagecoach (1939 film)
Stagecoach (1939) is John Ford's landmark Western, his first sound-era Western, starring John Wayne as the Ringo Kid and Claire Trevor, shot in Monument Valley, based on Haycox's "Stage to Lordsburg," and credited with elevating the Western to A-picture status.
Station West
Station West is a 1948 RKO Western film noir directed by Sidney Lanfield, starring Dick Powell, Jane Greer, and Agnes Moorehead, adapted from Luke Short's novel about an undercover Army agent investigating gold-shipment thefts.
Tall in the Saddle
Tall in the Saddle is a 1944 RKO Western directed by Edwin L. Marin, starring John Wayne as Rocklin, a cowboy framed for murder while working for ranch owner Arly Harolday (Ella Raines) against corrupt Judge Garvey (Ward Bond); based on Gordon Ray Young's novel, released 17 October 1944.
The Big Country
The Big Country is William Wyler's 1958 widescreen Western, co-produced with and starring Gregory Peck as a pacifist Easterner in a water-rights feud, based on Donald Hamilton's "Ambush at Blanco Canyon," with Burl Ives winning Best Supporting Actor and Jerome Moross's score Oscar-nominated.
The Big Trail
The Big Trail (1930) is Raoul Walsh's Fox Western epic on the Oregon Trail, John Wayne's first starring role, shot in 35mm and 70mm Grandeur widescreen, a costly box-office failure later named to the National Film Registry in 2006.
The Bravados
The Bravados is a 1958 American Western directed by Henry King and starring Gregory Peck as a rancher who hunts four outlaws he believes raped and murdered his wife.
The Far Country
The Far Country is a 1954/1955 Anthony Mann Western starring James Stewart as cattleman Jeff Webster in the Klondike gold rush, the fourth of five Mann-Stewart Universal-International Westerns, filmed at Jasper National Park, Alberta.
The Gunfighter
The Gunfighter (1950) is Henry King's Twentieth Century-Fox Western starring Gregory Peck as aging gunslinger Jimmy Ringo, an antiheroic, mustachioed forerunner of the psychological Westerns, initially a box-office disappointment but later acclaimed (Metascore 94).
The Hanging Tree (1959 film)
The Hanging Tree (1959) is a Delmer Daves Western starring Gary Cooper as Doc Frail, based on Dorothy M. Johnson's novelette, filmed near Yakima, Washington; Karl Malden finished directing after Daves fell ill, and the Marty Robbins title song earned an Oscar nomination.
The Lusty Men
The Lusty Men is a 1952 RKO rodeo drama directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Robert Mitchum, Susan Hayward, and Arthur Kennedy, adapted from Claude Stanush's 1946 Life article about champion Bob Crosby.
The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven (1960) is John Sturges' Western remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, and Charles Bronson, with Elmer Bernstein's famous score; a flop that became a classic.
The Man from Colorado
The Man from Colorado is a 1948 Columbia Western directed by Henry Levin, starring Glenn Ford as a psychologically damaged Civil War veteran turned corrupt judge and William Holden as his marshal friend; a late-1940s noir western.